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President & CEO @ycombinator —Founder @garryslist—Creator of GStack & GBrain—designer/engineer who helps founders—SF Dem accelerating the boom loop

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1Feb 19, '23George Orwell, 1984: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been r57.1×9.1M13k2.2k982
2Apr 14, '25"To fund his golfing ambitions, McIlroy's parents took on extra jobs. Gerry worked 100 hours a week; he cleaned toilets and showers at a local sports club in the mornings, served a50.9×8.1M109k7.8k6.4k
3Feb 24, '25Intelligence is on tap now so agency is even more important40.3×6.4M6.6k6202.4k
4Aug 11, '23Tech gave me everything I have Its capacity to lift people into abundance is incredible and there is nothing like it We must make that into prosperity for everyone30.4×4.9M6.9k9331.5k
5Jul 20, '24Underrated trend27.9×4.5M7.4k6265.4k
6Feb 8, '25View post on X21.2×3.4M13k1.4k15k
7Jul 13, '25Hm, what changed about society in 2012? 👀20.5×3.3M5k8571.7k
8Aug 22, '25If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-co19.7×3.1M18k2.6k4.4k
9Apr 1, '21My best career advice: At every job you should either learn or earn. Either is fine. Both is best. But if it's neither, quit.16.6×047k15k3.1k
10Jun 24, '25At a party tonight with politically active San Franciscans and we were just thinking... wow, NYC is cooked.16×2.6M11k307737
11May 30, '25Hey guys this is racism13.6×2.2M59k6k3k
12May 28, '25One state ***increased*** its reading literacy for the bottom 10% of students while 49 other states let standards keep slipping. It was the poorest state in the country, Mississipp13.5×2.2M22k2.8k2.1k
13Jul 9, '25We should have more billionaires12.7×2M10k430560
14Jun 23, '25Rich people can leave NYC but I feel sorry for the poor Asian American kids who are trapped and once they destroy the education system there will be no way up12.2×2M7.1k352443
15Jan 1, '23In 2008 I showed up to Y Combinator Startup School to take photos of speakers and learn how to start a startup. I was an engineer and designer and had never started a company befor10.9×1.7M7.1k541556
16Dec 20, '24Yes10.8×1.7M10k231543
17Oct 27, '25If you look at the crumbling policies that destroy blue cities it’s directly traceable to the rapidly growing nonprofit industrial complex10.7×1.7M4.4k468476
18Oct 16, '23I refuse to appear at Web Summit and am canceling my appearance. I condemn Hamas and pray for peace for the Israeli and Palestinian people.10.5×1.7M5.9k553335
19Sep 25, '24View post on X10.1×1.6M5.4k576158
20May 14, '23It’s time for San Francisco to be radically pro-small-business instead of whatever virtue signaling nonsense it is right now10×1.6M4.7k369144
21Sep 20, '23I just got forwarded the craziest email from SF Parking Enforcement A vehicle used in narcotics trafficking with over $2600 worth of tickets has been parked for weeks across from t9.9×1.6M5.4k384300
22Nov 13, '25Little bro just enjoy elementary school don’t do this yet Go make some Roblox games though9.2×1.5M15k3671.7k
23Jun 13, '25New York City please don’t do this to yourself —A San Franciscan9.1×1.4M12k748500
24May 3, '25The sweet sweet moment you find product market fit (wait for it)9.0×1.4M9.8k9182.9k
25Nov 25, '23Legalize skilled immigration8.9×1.4M4.5k426257
26Sep 3, '25Flock Safety currently solves 700,000 reported cases of crime per year, which is about 10% of reported crime nationwide And they're just getting started8.8×1.4M5.1k1781.7k
27Dec 25, '24Keep skilled immigration legal7.8×1.2M20k765704
28May 14, '25Palo Alto just removed Honors Biology and Honors English classes from public high schools. The education bureaucrats have run amok, and the losers are kids who can't afford private7.5×1.2M6.8k624552
29Jan 26, '25DeepSeek search feels more sticky even after a few queries because seeing the reasoning (even how earnest it is about what it knows and what it might not know) increases user trust7.4×1.2M7k3871.1k
30May 3, '24Apple has devolved into a late stage holding company That Siri has no LLM while they are doing this scale of buyback is a complete lack of ambition and no understanding of what is 7.2×1.2M4.3k294524
31Jan 27, '25Have to admit I just bought the $NVDA dip6.9×1.1M8.3k292368
32Mar 14, '25In-N-Out puts cash into fresh beef and well-paid people. McDonald’s feeds corporate overhead. Result? In-N-Out makes nearly double per store while making a far better product cheap6.8×1.1M17k979576
33Dec 5, '24I am a six figure donor to Stanford and I am so embarrassed about this I don’t know if I will ever donate again6.6×1.1M8.8k675745
34Jun 30, '25We are trying to create thousands of new billionaires over here6.5×1M11k358459
35Dec 9, '23"One solution: Intifada revolution." This is a call for genocide, full stop. They're shouting on the streets what they're going to do now: the final solution. Not in America, not o6.5×1M4k404361
36Mar 5, '25For 25% of the Winter 2025 batch, 95% of lines of code are LLM generated. That’s not a typo. The age of vibe coding is here.6.4×1M4.2k4472k
37Dec 20, '24Learn UX design and product design and you will become stronger than you could ever imagine6.4×1M4.7k3682.6k
38Jun 19, '25Hey maybe don’t do this 👀6.2×991k5.3k84476
39Dec 17, '23I wish this were The Onion6.2×989k4.2k594333
40Dec 28, '24Absolutely incredible5.7×907k15k5801.2k
41Jun 21, '25Time to put on the anti-mimetic armor5.6×902k6.9k86608
42Sep 10, '25I don’t understand who asked for a thinner iPhone5.5×874k8.9k346232
43Jan 26, '25This seems like an overreaction Wall Street needs to read the Wikipedia page on Jevon’s Paradox5.4×860k4.3k3091.3k
44Sep 30, '25NYC about to do the hard left doom loop thing Ya’ll didn’t learn a thing from SF did you? The innocent will receive no justice, the public school children will receive a far worse 5.4×857k7k428383
45Oct 4, '23Thiel on America: “Companies started since 1990 worth $100B+. 11 are in the US, 6 in China. Zero everywhere else.” 🤯5.4×856k4.5k410345
46Dec 25, '24Keep skilled immigration legal5.3×853k7.3k430977
47Jun 21, '25Alexandr Wang: The future isn't humans vs AI - it's humans managing AI chaos. Even self-driving cars need 1 human operator per 5 cars to handle edge cases. The last 10% of accuracy5.3×841k6k7402.8k
48May 4, '25Funny early Palantir story We were doing some of our first sales meetings for Palantir and (team was all under 25 at the time) and were staying at the Mandarin Oriental We said hey5.2×836k5.9k1981.4k
49Feb 8, '25View post on X5.1×819k6.4k328908
50Jun 30, '25Asian men are having a real moment 🫡5.1×819k9.8k440732
51Jun 16, '25Just study computer science or engineering You can learn the other stuff live when you need it4.9×783k4.8k2871k
52May 8, '25mog/acc means your brain power turns into real prosperity in the real world4.7×747k2.4k9544
53Feb 24, '25Most people don’t understand LLMs have changed the nature of management already, and this will be a bit of a shock to people4.2×676k4.1k189481
54Oct 11, '23There is something deeply wrong with Google’s abuse, trust and safety teams4.2×667k4.4k55492
55Feb 8, '25View post on X4.1×663k5.8k377648
56May 24, '25Something absolutely everyone should be doing right now, to get ahead of the coming wave of AI change: Identify toilsome tasks in your work and life that AI could handle, freeing y4.1×659k5.4k3822.9k
57Nov 8, '24Sam Altman says Artificial Superintelligence is thousands of days away. There is a lot of compounding left to do. What happens then? Fix climate, space colonies, limitless intellig4.1×652k4.1k4421.6k
58Jul 25, '25How long before people intentionally put in typos to make sure people believe an LLM didn’t write a thing?4.0×645k6k202316
59Apr 21, '25The two most important things in the world from here is no longer what school you went to or what your resume looks like It is the amount of **agency** you bring to the table, and 4.0×636k5.3k6363.7k
60Sep 3, '25What a time to be working on healthcare AI3.9×617k4.9k3471.2k
61Nov 6, '24Enjoy private life @DeanPreston @AaronPeskin Maybe consider moving to Marin3.8×613k4.1k115129
62Apr 25, '24This was such a poorly done video I think I am even more supportive of the TikTok ban than I was before.3.8×613k4.7k216354
63Jul 20, '23The President of Stanford had to resign over doctored data Stanford professor Jo Boaler should resign next. Her doctored data removed Algebra from SF public middle schools and will3.8×605k4.2k737200
64Mar 25, '25Degrowth is just saying the citizens of the most needy countries should just stay impoverished Degrowth is a death cult3.7×593k8.2k9651.4k
65Feb 3, '25Whoever made the original graphic doesn’t understand the scale and speed of smart high IQ people who can program, and what they can do in a moment when intelligence now on infinite3.7×587k4.6k144561
66Feb 1, '25Just another day in the neighborhood where we are trying to raise our kids I literally have to go pick up tamiflu for my 5 year old here tonight We need to fully fund the police, f3.6×580k4.3k242280
67Jul 15, '24Oakland had 30 brutal attacks &amp; robberies at Westlake Christian Terrace Senior Living in a week 85 year old Asian grandmas getting beaten/robbed so bad they're sent to the ER e3.6×570k4.2k758357
68Sep 7, '24When I graduated with my computer engineering degree I went to Gap and wanted a job that could let me code and design clothes. They laughed at me and told me to go work in IT. I we3.5×566k5.5k3921.1k
69Apr 2, '25It’s wrappers all the way down Platforms exist Thanks @daniel_r_vega @inversionsemi3.5×561k5.4k4641.7k
70May 22, '24Cheaper is the worst way to compete Be better or faster first3.5×556k4.3k420822
71Sep 11, '25Chesa Boudin’s parents were domestic terrorists: The Weather Underground They got tenured professorships after the violence Chesa is now a UC Berkeley Law Prof now after making SF 3.4×550k6.6k917473
72Nov 6, '24It’s a great outcome for San Francisco. A near clean sweep of moderate Dems. Hats off to Marjan Philhour, Danny Sauter, Bilal Mahmood and Michael Lai on retaking the Board of Super3.2×515k4.7k234276
73Sep 10, '25No matter what your politics might be, or what you believe about how society should be structured, it is truly a sad day today that someone who spoke their mind would be killed for3.1×503k9.5k617228
74Jan 24, '25Don’t just lie flat on the ground because AGI is here and ASI is coming. Your hands are multiplied. Your ideas must be brought into the world. Your agency will drive the machines o3.1×488k4.7k5191.1k
75Apr 20, '25He is risen indeed3.0×472k4.4k180103
76Jul 1, '24View post on X2.8×449k4.1k522790
77Jun 21, '25Elon Musk's formula for success: Ego ÷ Ability &lt; 1⁣ ⁣ When your ego exceeds your ability, you break the feedback loop to reality. Smash your ego. Internalize responsibility. Do 2.7×438k5.4k6782.5k
78Sep 7, '24I think about spaced repetition forgetting curves for marketing/branding absolutely all of the time. Did you just launch? You need to get in front of people again at 2, 7, 30 and 62.7×427k4.4k3205.7k
79Jun 22, '25Hard left socialists destroy specialized public high schools The idea of social mobility is offensive to them and cannot be allowed. We need to fight against these people and norma2.7×427k4.5k370242
80Nov 6, '24This is California healing If the Dems want to fix themselves it’s going to be through actually supporting things like this2.6×420k4.4k230138
81Jul 22, '24Always play the hand you have, not the one you wish you had2.5×399k4.6k627723
82Aug 29, '22Next year, I'll be going back to Y Combinator as President and CEO. It's a one in ten billion lifetimes kind of opportunity— YC gave me my start, and I'm deeply grateful to the com2.3×09k478169
84Apr 14, '21I funded Coinbase in 2012. 6000x on my best startup investment yet.2.3×07.2k941622
85Jul 8, '24Got to meet the man who controls the spice. Thanks @RonConway2.2×347k5.2k85133
87Mar 17, '25It’s true meditation is cool but getting things done is even better2.0×318k5.1k3971k
88Dec 19, '24Seems like we should stop doing this2.0×313k4.1k103223
89Apr 30, '24Excellent community note1.8×291k4.9k298134
90Apr 8, '25Every CEO should sign up and onboard with their product or service at least once a quarter to make sure everything still works1.8×287k4.6k270502
91Dec 25, '24I am #TeamSriram all the way1.7×274k4.4k150125
92Oct 13, '24Bingo1.7×274k3.9k262934
93Nov 28, '20RIP Tony Hsieh “Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being1.6×04.7k821767
94May 17, '19It is shocking how often startups fail because of the personality flaws and deep seated childhood traumas of their founders and execs. Get therapy. Get exec coaching. Do inner work1.5×04.3k855474
95Mar 27, '22Been thinking about this meme all week Are you the kind of person who just rolls up your sleeves and plugs the hole? Our world needs a whole lot more of that1.4×04.2k812525
96Oct 29, '25You can just do things1.4×216k4k288561
97Sep 3, '24View post on X1.3×211k3.9k18297
98Jun 8, '22WE DID IT1.2×05.2k24128
99Dec 1, '20Can’t get this stat out of my head today A million seconds is 11.5 days. A billion seconds is 31.7 years.1.2×04.1k473305

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